Nursery Rhyme. CXVI. Scholastic.

    Multiplication is vexation,
        Division is as bad;
    The Rule of Three doth puzzle me,
        And Practice drives me mad.

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Nursery Rhyme. DXXXI. Natural History.

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Nursery Rhyme. XCIV. Proverbs.

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Nursery Rhyme. LIX. Tales.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXV. Scholastic.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXVII. Scholastic.

        [The following memorial lines are by no means modern. They occur, with slight variations, in an old play, called 'The Returne from Parnassus,' 4to, Lond. 1606; and another version    may be seen in Winter's 'Cambridge Almanac' for 1635. See the 'Rara Mathematica,' p. 119.]

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    April, June, and November;
    February has twenty-eight alone,
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    Excepting leap-year, that's the time
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